As far as the deliberately contrived, selective killing of European settlers went, the clear-cut aim was to drive them in from the bled, thus further reducing existing contacts between the two communities. The anonymity of their murderers—as with the Mau-Mau in Kenya—served the same purpose by making the whole of the local Muslim population suspect in the eyes of the fearful Europeans.

XREF: Connects to patterns of asymmetric warfare and how terrorist attackers use anonymity to poison intergroup relations, similar to dynamics in colonial Kenya and elsewhere.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 420